China Mug – #2nd Edition
This is the first in a series of homeware and gift products featuring the typography found on white village sign posts. Older signs are cast in steel, later versions rivet individual metal letters onto wooden posts. The signs are slowly disappearing – they are vandalised, buried in hedges, destroyed in car accidents and inevitably replaced with their modern equivalent.
So, support your local black and white sign post and buy a commemorative mug or tea towel! … other products are planned. Available at our online store and at various open studio days, markets and fairs throughout the year. For more information and to order please visit 59HighStreet.com
LIGHT TRAFFIC ONLY products are also available from Cambridge Contemporary Crafts
Some blog exposure here on St Jude’s – All Things Considered also Flatlanders / Retro To Go / Creative Boom / Creative Review / Ben Pentreath’s INSPIRATION Blog
Artist/Designer/Cook Jake Tilson says:
“the perfect mix of type and kitchen”
Novelist/Speechwriter/Ex-Newsreader Joanna Nadin says:
“Loving my Light Traffic Only Saffron Walden nostalgia mugs”
Tea Towel Graphic – #1st Edition
Earthenware Mug Graphic – #1st Edition
LEGAL STATEMENT:
© Copyright 2010 Gareth Wild at APROPOS. All rights reserved.
© Apropos 2009
hey – see what you mean now – very nice indeed.
Very nice work. I love that overlooked signage. Good to see it being brought to a new audience.
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, may I suggest typographic jigsaws? If you make a fortune from that, you owe me a pint . . .
cheers,
Jim H
Please let me know when they come up for sale.
Chish*i*ll (not Chishall) – its Chrishall, Lt Chishill and Gt Chishill – for 2nd Edition
thanks Rosemarie – v observant! I hadn’t noticed the typo… BUT the village names are literally photographed from the signs… so a spelling mistake yes but an authentic and historic one!